Featured Book: DAVID AUSTIN, THE ENGLISH ROSES

[becke_davis]

Anyone who likes roses has most likely heard of the David Austin roses -- beautiful, old-style roses that have been bred to save the best features of the old roses while offering the hardiness, pest-resistance and other benefits of modern roses.  While each rose has to be judged on its own merits, it's hard to beat the David Austin roses for sheer beauty.

This would be a great Mother's Day gift, either by itself or with another book (such as our second featured book for May), maybe with a David Austin rose bush!  I've listed a few other related books, too:

English Roses  

A History of the Fragrant Rose  

Roses Revealed  

ROSES  

Old-Fashioned and David Austin Roses  

100 English Roses for the American Garden  

Botanica's Roses  

David Austin's English Roses  

English Rose  

Old Roses and English Roses  

Shrub Roses and Climbing Roses  

[Choisya]

Not only are they great old-fashioned roses Becke, many of them have that great old fashioned, sweet perfume too.  

Message Edited by Choisya on 05-07-2009 11:00 AM

[becke_davis]

My favorite roses are the heavily fragrant ones, Choisya.  I like the names David Austin uses for his roses, too.

[Choisya]

Once a year I visit a David Austin Rose Garden at the Alnwick Garden in Northumberland and the perfume can be overwhelming on a warm June day - I could swoon!

Becke, I wonder if B&N would allow our own digital photographs to be uploaded to your threads?  I feel it would be an asset for folks to show each other their own gardens here as well as being able to link to those on the internet.  How about asking Jon if he could facilitate it?    

[becke_davis]

I'll ask him right now.

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Choisya wrote:

Once a year I visit a David Austin Rose Garden at the Alnwick Garden in Northumberland and the perfume can be overwhelming on a warm June day - I could swoon!

Becke, I wonder if B&N would allow our own digital photographs to be uploaded to your threads?  I feel it would be an asset for folks to show each other their own gardens here as well as being able to link to those on the internet.  How about asking Jon if he could facilitate it?    

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[becke_davis]

Jon's reply:

This is something we’re thinking about adding in the future – I’ll let you know more once our plans are more solidified J 

[Choisya]

Good!  Thanks, Becke and Jon.

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becke_davis wrote:

Jon's reply:

This is something we’re thinking about adding in the future – I’ll let you know more once our plans are more solidified J 

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